Oh, that's silly! It's a laptop, darn it! The other users will (almost certainly) be on the console, and they'll be in the same time zone your are in. (Unless they have *very* long arms.)
What you are proposing is not the normal use case for a laptop -- you seem to be thinking that I carry my laptop around so that people can ssh into it. That's quite rare. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696115 Title: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs